Apple Joins Blu-Ray Board

The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today that Apple has joined the Blu-ray forum, one of the competing standards for high-definition DVD format. Currently, there’s no single accepted standard for creating HD-formatted DVDs. When you take HD content into iDVD, for example, it’s sampled down to standard-definition format. Apple’s participation is likely to make a sizeable difference in which way the standards winds shift. Other Blu-ray backers include Dell, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi , Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and LG, as well as Walt Disney Pictures and Television, Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Pictures.

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